ULA tapped to launch Astrobotic's lunar lander to the Moon in 2021

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has been chosen to launch the lunar lander of one of the companies chosen by NASA for its commercial lunar payload program. ULA will deliver Astrobotic's Peregrine lander to the Moon in 2021, the companies announced today. Peregrine will fly aboard ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket, taking off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, and this will act as one of two required certification flights that ULA must do in order to qualify for USAF missions with the Vulcan Centaur.